Who Was Alive

Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate

Born 6 August 1881 · died 11 March 1955, aged 73

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander Fleming?

  1. Victor Hugo
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Leo Tolstoy
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche
  6. Thomas Edison
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Mahatma Gandhi
  9. Vladimir Lenin
  10. Winston Churchill
  11. Joseph Stalin
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Alexander Fleming
  15. Pablo Picasso
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Adolf Hitler
  18. Ronald Reagan
  19. Nelson Mandela
  20. Elizabeth II
  21. Joe Biden
  22. Donald Trump
  23. George W. Bush
  24. Vladimir Putin
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When Alexander Fleming was born, Albert Einstein was 2, Karl Marx was 63, Vladimir Lenin was 11, Mahatma Gandhi was 11 and Leo Tolstoy was 52.

When Alexander Fleming died, Donald Trump was 8, Albert Einstein was 75, Vladimir Putin was 2, Ronald Reagan was 44 and Nelson Mandela was 36.

Born during Alexander Fleming’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born 6 years after Alexander Fleming died, Michael Jackson was born 3 years after Alexander Fleming died, Fyodor Dostoyevsky died months before Alexander Fleming was born and Charles Dickens died 11 years before Alexander Fleming was born.

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  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Vladimir Putin born 1952
  5. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  6. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1879–1881 – 1938
  24. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  25. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  33. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  34. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  35. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  36. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  37. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
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  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
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  53. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
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  58. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
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  60. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  61. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  62. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
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  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
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  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
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  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
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  76. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
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  78. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
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  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
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  128. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  129. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
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  133. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  134. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
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  137. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  138. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
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  141. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
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  148. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
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